Our View: Change begets more change in Pineville

8:23 AM,
Oct. 21, 2013

A team of paddlers races along the Red River between Alexandria and Pineville during a running of the annual Louisiana Dragon Boat Races. The waterfront on both sides of the Red River has been the focus of numerous development proposals through the years. Pineville, for example, hopes to establish a small entertainment district with restaurants on its side of the Red to complement the Riverfront Amphitheater it faces in Alexandria. On Saturday, Pineville voters passed a ballot measure to allow alcohol sales in restaurants within the city limits, a decision that is widely expected to attract interest from restaurant and hotel chains and others in the hospitality industry.

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Clearly, some of both has happened in Pineville over the past few decades. How else would you explain Saturday's vote to allow the sale of alcoholic beverages in restaurants in the city?

The ballot measure passed by a vote of nearly 4 to 1 as more than 78 percent of the voters who turned out said: Yes, we'd like to sip an aperitif while browsing the menu, enjoy a bottle of wine with our dinner, and perhaps relax with a cordial or something stiffer to savor the pleasant moment. ...